The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s primary mission as a key component of the Department of Homeland Security is to keep terrorists and their weapons out of America, but the agency spends a lot of time policing illegal drug activity. Click on the links for details on the many busts CBP makes every month.
November
Agents seize 15,000 pounds of pot in one day across south Texas.
Border Patrol finds nearly $1 million in pot stuffed into backpacks.
Cocaine-stuffed chicken seized.
Agents find $1.6 million in counterfeit toys.
Agents scoop up two purses stuffed with $12,000 in packaged marijuana.
Eight arrested in marijuana seizure.
Agents find nearly a ton of pot in pickup truck.
Packaged pot found concealed in garden hose reels.
Man caught with marijuana Thanksgiving morning.
Submerged Mercury Grand Marquis held 1,200 pounds of pot.
Two SUVs with over 2,000 pounds of marijuana seized in desert.
Four October operations take in $133 million in smugglers’ cocaine.
Two busts equal half a million in cocaine.
Traffic stop turns up 380 pounds of marijuana.
Dead man found floating off coast of Puerto Rico.
Agents find VW van stolen 35 years ago.
More than 800 pounds of marijuana stashed in refrigerated truck.
Two Texas busts haul in $700,000 in marijuana.
Agents nab three illegal immigrants crossing border.
$1.8 million in Mexican brown heroin seized.
Highway checkpoint search ends in seizure of $1.2 million in cocaine.
Six illegal immigrants rescued in Yuma desert.
Chinese men caught smuggling cucumbers into U.S.
Agents make two cocaine busts worth almost $200,000.
$3 million worth of pot found in shed.
Pregnant woman rescued from Arizona canyon.
Over 210 pounds of pot seized at Arizona border.
Four arrested attempting to smuggle marijuana into U.S.
Contraband video game machines seized at L.A. port.
Nearly 700 pounds of marijuana found stashed in Ford F-150.
K-9 sniffs out $800,000 in cocaine stuffed in Honda dashboard.
Border Patrol Action 2009
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